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The southeastward sprawl along California's Highway 111 has nearly doubled the valley's population, from 88,000 to 170,000, since 1970. In recent years the number of new houses, condominiums and hotels in the strip has grown as much as 60% a year. The value of building permits...
Whatever their other differences, U.S. and Peruvian officials are united in the war against drugs. Joint U.S.-Peruvian antinarcotics teams have recently taken out of service 28 airfields used to fly coca leaves to Colombia for processing. Government estimates indicate that eradication of coca plants last year nearly doubled. "We...
The Texas sesquicentennial cattle drive, part of the state's celebration of 150 years of independence from Mexico, bogged down this month after one day on the road because liability insurance covering the 49 longhorn steers that were involved was doubled and the organizers could not afford it. The drive...
Century Cartage Co., a small truck line out of Atlanta, is still in business only because the Georgia Public Service Commission approved an "emergency" 5% rate increase for its customers. But that boost came nowhere near meeting the cost of liability-insurance premiums that doubled to $48,000 last year...
Product-liability insurance presents a major problem for the makers of everything from toys to antitoxins. Pertussis vaccine for children ran short a year ago because Connaught Laboratories suspended production for a nine-month period during which it could not find insurance at an acceptable price. Now Lederle Laboratories, the...